Looker Studio is powerful for creating static dashboards—if you have time to build them. Gentle lets you skip the build process entirely and just ask for what you need.
Try Gentle FreeYou're in a stakeholder meeting and someone asks, "How did mobile conversion rates compare to desktop last week?" In Looker, if you didn't build that specific view beforehand, you can't answer. With Gentle, you type that exact question and show the chart in 10 seconds.
You want to know if a specific blog post from two years ago is getting traffic. Building a filter in Looker Studio for a one-off question is a waste of time. Gentle pulls the specific stat instantly.
Your content writer wants to know which topics performed best this month. Looker Studio dashboards can be overwhelming with too many widgets. Gentle lets them ask questions in their own words without fear of "breaking" the report.
If you're an agency that needs to send a branded, 5-page PDF report to a client every Monday morning that looks exactly the same every time, Looker Studio is the better choice for that specific static deliverable.
For day-to-day analysis, yes. For highly stylized, static monthly reports sent to external stakeholders, they can work side-by-side.
You pay for Looker Studio with your time. Gentle saves hours of manual configuration and frustration with GA4 quota limits.
Both tools use the official Google Analytics 4 API. Gentle adheres to strict privacy standards and only reads your data to answer your questions.
Connect your GA4 in 2 minutes and get instant answers without the dashboard maintenance headache.
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